The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 / 1609-1616 / Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

by Unknown

The Editors

July, 1904.

Documents of 1609

• [Laws regarding navigation and commerce]. Felipe II and Felipe III; 1583–1609.
• [Jesuit missions, 1608–09]. (From Annuæ litteræ; Dilingæ, 1610.)
• [Decree regulating services of Filipinos]. Felipe III; May 26.

Sources: Two of these documents are taken from Recopilación de leyes—the first from lib. ix, tit. xlv; the third, from lib. vi., tit. xii (ley xl). The second is obtained from Annuæ litteræ (Dilingæ, 1610), pp. 507–532.

Translations: The first and third of these documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the second, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin.

Laws Regarding Navigation and Commerce